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The Port of Copenhagen

The Free Port was constructed on the comparatively shal­ low waters north of Copenhagen and its old fortifications. Ideally situated, with direct and easy access from the Sound, the port is, thanks to the total absence of tide, navigable at any hour of the day. The more important basins of the Free Port are the “Kron- lobs Basin“ ( T .5 ) with 9.5 metres depth, the “North Basin1 (S .5 ) with 7.5 metres, the “Middle Basin'* (R .5 ) with 7.5 metres, the “West Basin" ( P . 6 ) with 8.1 metres and the “East Basin" ( P . 6 ) with 9.1 metres. At the corner between the West Basin and the Middle Basin the Danish State Railways have two ferry-docks (R .5 ) for the Danish and Swedish ferry boats connecting Copen­ hagen with Malmo in Sweden.

(Jonals Co.) One of the East Asiatic Company’s Motorships at the grain suction plant in the Free Port.

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